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I was never entirely able to distinguish Imports from the standard UK issue and, even then, a lot of the imported stuff I have seems to be second hand no matter where it was bought from. I have the odd few albums that must have been imported but I can't always tell whether the shop did so or if...

Possibly a more tenuous connection in that his father (not he) was a local MP but there's John Amery (son of Leo) executed for treason in 1945 as a recruiter for the Nazis.

Not sure if you'd call it a subway but there's the paths by the road that goes under the ringway by the mailbox. I'm not sure about the subways by St Chad's - they were only ever partial and the same goes for the ones going to the island by Horse Fair.

For what it's worth, my career in COBOL was spent on the accounting/stock control section of S Rose & Co, (then in the old Typhoo building). The magazine scans mentioned in the post were of the (Balsall) Heathan which ran from 1973 to 2015. We now have (digital at least) copies of all of them...

It's a long time since I tried Voice Recognition and, although it took time to set up, it did show some promise then. I know things have improved since - if nothing else, people get it to work out of the box - but it seems to be as accurate as it was. OCR is usually pretty good and I have used...

Not necessarily, some of the old Roger Corman films were definitely played for laughs.

Quatermass II not the first series.

As I understood it nobody much had TV before the coronation (1952) and, at least 'round our way, they weren't in every home until the 60s so either your terrace was pretty lucky or you've screwed the dates up somewhere because it sounds like you had TV before 56.

It doesn't look like that ever happened as the Park still goes all the way to the Pershore Road. According to a rough map from 1870 Calthorpe Park ended at the Rea. This was before they moved the river so that would mean the back of the park hasn't really been extended that way either. If...

A few others and some referred to:- Ready Player One (2018) - The Spielberg film mentioned The Girl with All the Gifts (2016) - In cinemas now Prostitute (1980) - the sort of thing we'd rather forget Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968) - Somewhere there's a crowd scene with my dad in the background...

Around the time of the 3 day week I was working for the Inspector of Taxes. I can't remember exactly which office I was in at the time although that early I would just have been a clerk (filing, getting customer details and passing them on). I'm not sure if my father was still working for the...

Depending on where in Edgbaston, you have different options for the closest park. Cannon Hill is at one corner, Calthorpe is closer to town, there's a lot of parkland by the reservoir... You're not likely to find out unless there's something enduring and specific to go on. There's no guarantee...

I never suffered from bullies among the kids in school much. I remember a drawn-out fight with the toughest kid in class in one primary school but that was just a one off and not as one-sided as it might have been. Next primary school one kid and a couple of his mates tried to gang up on me so I...

A lot of the reason that councils reduced their house-building programmes in the late 70s was down to the new regulations from the Thatcher government. In addition to the "right to buy", city councils had to fund all new developments by selling existing stock at discounted prices either to...

Microsoft have always had some kind of issue with the alternate versions of Windows desktop. People liked 98 and said Me was bad, XP good don't touch Vista, 7 good again 8 to be avoided. The oddity was that there was a lot said about 9 being the solution to all of the problems in 8 but somehow...

..err that's St Martin's alright but there's not much of anything else in the picture. As I remember it, the market hall should be to the right (out of shot?) and the open market behind the observer.

B12 is Balsall Heath & Highgate although B12 8** and B12 9** roughly correspond to the Balsall Heath Council District of the late 50s/early 60s. I know the council district is older than that but they sliced off the bit between Balsall Heath Rd and Belgrave Rd in the 50s and abolished the...

True, all 3 have Balsall Heath printed on the map somewhere but the later 2 have a border in style and colour that matches the number 12 printed large and within the area. That's why I say that the bordered area relates to Birmingham 12 rather than Balsall Heath.

Although the first map does show Balsall Heath, the other two show Birmingham 12 which is not really the same thing. I'm not sure when they started with the numbered rather than named areas (1920s/30s) but, somehow, I doubt they exactly matched the named districts. As far as I can tell Balsall...

Use Microsoft and whatever their browser is and you are using the industry standard. This has been the default browser/operating system for years and consequently it has been the most common target for hackers and malware creators. Things are changing. A few years back Android became the...